Angelo cattaneo



A. OATTANEO. MACHINE FOR FULLING HAT BODIES;

No. 75,122. Patented Mar 3, 1868;

ANGELO JGATTANEO. 0F NEWARK NEW JERSEY.

- Letters Patent No 75,122, dated vMarch 3, 1 868.

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Be it known that I, ANGELO CATIANEO, of Newark, in tlie county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented, made, and applied. to use a certain 'new and useful Improvement in Fulling or Sizing Hat-Bodies;

,and' I 'do hereby declare the follon in'g to be a full and correct deseription of'the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making port of this apecificetion, wherein Figure 1 is a plan of the seid machine,'and g Figure 2 is a. vertical section at the line a: 2:. Similar marks of referencedenote the same parts. I I-Ieretot'ore hat-bodies and similar articles have beenfnlledso as to thicken them, and bring them .to the proper size by the action-of hammers. In this charaotor ot'machine the'huts are apt to become matted together, and not uniformly operated upon in' consequence of thomass not moving around regularly in themachine, so tli ats'omo are opcrated upon by thehammel's more than others, and. constant manual labor'hns been required to cause the proper continuous movement in theinoss of hats, by pulling them up from tim'e to time to loosen I them, so that the felting operution may be uniform.

' The nature of my said invention consists in a. hinged swinging side to the fulling-bo'x,-that by its constant movement causes the mass of hats to more around regularly in the apparatus, and hence; be fulled or felted with unifermity, and manual-labor is almost entirely dispensed with during the operation. I

In the drawing, ais e frame, carrying the fulcrum b of the hammers c c, the lovers of which extend to the irlie'el cl that is driven by competent power, and provided with rollers e e that are alternated on opposite sides of said wheel, and raise first one hammer e, and allow itto drop, and then raise and drop the next.

Thehammers c a operate within the box f in the usual manner of-fullin'g or sizing-machines. The box f is provided with the hinged sidepiece k that is swung back and forth on the-hingei by menus 0f the connectingrods k, cranks or eccentrics ion the shaftm, that is driven by power from the shaft of the wheel d. The operation of the movable side iris to keep the hats moving regularly, that the felting operntion may be uniform throughout the mass, as aforosnidythe action of the hammers being to force tliemassof hats up against the side It, and that, by its movement, throwing the upper portion. ofthe'massover, that the hats may full, and be .egain passed by the hammers in under the mass. I

A steam-piper, is to be introduced toheat the contents or the box.

lVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1 The side-piece It to the boxf, fitted to swing on the hinge 2', in combination with the hammersc-c, thepartsbeing arranged and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

'In witness -nhereof, here hereunto set my signnture, thi's twentieth day of-Dec'ember, A. D. 1867, I I .ANGELO CATTANEO,

Witnesses;

Cues. HJSMIrn, Geo. T. hummer.- 

